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Friday August 29th, 2008

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Half of Walloons Want to Join France

07/30/2008 :: 49% of Walloons want to see their region join France if Belgium should cease to exist. That is at least 20% more than a similar survey of less than a year ago showed, the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reported (30 July 2008). Furthermore: 60% of the French want to see the Walloons do this, as polls by the Brussels newspaper Le Soir and the Northern France paper La Voix du Nord show. Currently 40% of all the large companies in Wallonia are in French hands, Walloons tune into French TV channels and they are culturally speaking much closer to France than to Flanders.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT FLEMISH INDEPENDENCE

Why Flemish independence is the only solution?
Politicians of the establishment Flemish parties, who are often too pragmatic, campaign for constitutional revisions and adjustments within the Belgian federal ... | more

Brussels as the bilingual capital of a free Flanders?
Historically, Brussels was a Dutch-speaking city. Research shows that less than 5% of all preserved public documents written before 1500 were written in French.... | more

But what about ‘national solidarity’ with Wallonia?
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